A close friend's father suddenly passed away today. Death puts so much of life's frivolity and triviality into perspective.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
We have an innate sense of presence of the people we love, no matter how far away they may be, or how long it's been since we met them.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
To have it snuffed so suddenly and unexpectedly takes a great toll. To come out of that grief and mourning takes a great time.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
Things will never be the same again, but that doesn't mean they will never be good again. Realizing this can take years. I've seen it.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
Stages of grief are denial, anger, negotiation, depression, acceptance. Each stage takes exponentially longer than the last.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
You can rationalize it, talk about it, empathize with people. But living it is different. You have to find your own way through it.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
But know that there is a way through it. The people you love may not be with us, but they are not gone either. They live inside you.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
To love is to know someone. Ask yourself, what would he say? And you will hear his voice and counsel and love because he is in you.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
For we are not truly dead as long as those remain who remember us. Remembering is at once the greatest tribute and best lenitive.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
You're never truly prepared to lose a parent. Being in your mid 20's makes it all the more tragic. It is heartbreaking and unfair.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
What hurts most is the inability to share all the amazing things you're going to do in your life with someone who unconditionally loves you.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
Their children's success is the greatest desire of any parent, and children know this. Now who will cheer for them? Who will care for them?
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
That specific void can never be filled, but family and friends come together and pool their love and endure and thrive and prosper and live.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
Goodbye, Uncle. You were a brilliant, charismatic, learned, talented, moral, wise, loving man, and you will be sorely missed –
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
– by those who knew you, and by those who never got a chance to meet you.
— Terence Tuhinanshu (@rajadain) May 5, 2015
